CLSA 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Osprey, Aegeus, Knossos
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He comes to her in the form of a bull: (silde 3) Minos was one of them": laelaps and talos. Minos, overcoming his two brothers, claims the throne. A bull arises but minos does not sacrifice it, as he had promised. Pasiphae falls in love with the bull. Pasiphae asks daedalus, the greatest craftsman of all time, to help her. Daedalus constructs a hollow wooden cow and pasiphae climbs inside. Minotaur, a man-eating monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man, is born. Minos asks daedalus to build a prison for the monster. He constructs a maze of windlings and turnings, the labyrinth. No one who entered could find a way out and was doomed to be eaten by the monster within. Minos attacks athens whose ruler at the time was aegeus. On the way, he besieges the city of megara. Nisus: invulnerable as long as a certain purple lock grows in his head.